Chasing the Dragon: into the Heart of the Golden Triangle Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Chasing the Dragon: into the Heart of the Golden Triangle Book

Cox, a reporter for the Boston Herald, traveled into the Shan State, the lawless region of northern Myanmar (or Burma) that produces much of the world's opium, to interview Khun Sa, the drug warlord who built himself a jungle empire on drug profits and who styled himself a Shan freedom-fighter. Khun Sa, who has since "retired" and lives in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), is a complex character. This account of bearding the devil in his lair combines thorough research, high adventure, and prose pungent with the odor of poppies blooming on remote mountainsides.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Prize-winning journalist Chris Cox recounts his adventures tracking the heroin trail from the streets of Boston to the armed jungle camp of a rebel warlord and drug kingpin along the Thai border in Southeast Asia. "Part travel epic and part adventure story. . . . It's a journey you probably wouldn't want to make but might find fascinating to read about". THE BOSTON GLOBE.

  • 080505507X
  • 9780805055078
  • Christopher R. Cox
  • 1 September 1997
  • Henry Holt & Company Inc
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • 1st Owl Book Ed
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